ISBN:
9789004252479
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9004252479
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9789004252400
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9004252401
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde v. 284
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jong, Edwin Bernardus Paulus de, 1970- Making a living between crises and ceremonies in Tana Toraja
Keywords:
Toraja (Indonesian people) Social life and customs
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Ethnology
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HISTORY ; Asia ; Southeast Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
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Ethnology
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Manners and customs
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Toraja (Indonesian people) ; Social life and customs
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Indonesia ; Tana Toraja
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Tana Toraja (Indonesia) Social life and customs
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Electronic book
Abstract:
"The practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies"--
Abstract:
Arriving in the City and Finding ShelterLiving and Working in Makassar; Social Relations and Networks; Communication between the Urban Migrants and the Homeland; The Homecoming Myth: Metaphor or Reality?; Conclusions; 4. The Torajan Homeland; Early Sa'dan Toraja Society: Disunity and Diversity; A Society of Houses; Tongkonan Federations and Constellations; The Making of a Colonial Toraja; Torajan Politics under the New Republic; The Emergency of Tana Toraja; Transformation of the Torajan Political System: The Feudal Authority Replaced.
Abstract:
Decentralization and Local Autonomy: The Comeback of Traditional adat LeadersCentralization and Standardization: adat Depoliticized; Conclusions; 5. Contesting Political Power; Decentralization and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: The Revival of adat; Return to the lembang Movement; Failure of the lembang Movement; The lembang Revised and Re-divided; A 'Greater' or a Fragmented Toraja?; Conclusions; 6. Social Distinction and Ritual Performance173; Torajan Order and Status; The Making and Re-Making of a tongkonan; Siri' Makes the World go Round; Tournaments of Value.
Abstract:
Livelihoods and Social Space: NetworksSocial Relationships and Networks; Networks of Kin; Beyond Kinship: House Societies; Moving beyond Local Boundaries; 'A Sense of Place'; A Conception of Transnationalism; Where Do We Go from Here?; 3. The Larger Torajan World: Migrant Networks and Organizations; Torajans on the Move; Before merantau; After merantau; The Torajan Migrant World after 2000; Different Settings, Same Outcome: Two Torajan Diasporas Compared; Migrant Networks and Organizations; (Trans)migrants in the City: The Case of Makassar; Makassar: Microcosm of the Eastern Seas.
Abstract:
Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja; Copyright; Content; List of Maps, Tables, Figures and Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox; Makassar: A Transit City; Tana Toraja: A Social Labyrinth; Crisis and Ceremonies: An Intriguing Paradox; Construing Everyday Life; Small Places and Large Issues; Outline of This Study; 2. Torajan Livelihoods: The Cultural Dynamics of Economic Life; Reconceptualizing Livelihoods; Livelihood Styles: Beyond Agency and Social Structure; Livelihood Style Defined.
Abstract:
Tongkonan, Funerals and ChristianityConclusions; 7. Income and Expenditure Patterns in a Changing Economy; Economic Development in Tana Toraja: Booms and Busts; Early Economy of the Highlands; The Torajan Economy under Colonial Rule; Economic Transition: Steady Growth and Commercialization; Economic Fluctuations in Tana Toraja 1997-2003; Village Economies in the Early Twenty-First Century; Gross Village Cash Incomes; Local Household Income Activities; Spreading Activities beyond the Village Borders; Livelihood Sources of Various Wealth Groups in Palipu' and Kondo'; Expenditure Patterns.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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